Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Quinoa Shepherds Pie

Shepherds Pie is King in the Québécois répertoire of recipes.Every household has their way of doing it. There are books about the origin and all are searching for the authentic recipe. There is also a big mystery about the name we give it in Québec: Pâté Chinois.

I had a Shepherds-Pie-O-Thon in the last few days.I made some for us at home for the first time this year.We ate it on Monday night. Had leftovers for lunch on Tuesday.We were invited to Simon's parents Tuesday night - we ate some there too! AND, for us to laugh about this even more, his dad ate some in a restaurant for lunch.

Some are creamy (the use of creamed corn only, smooth potato mash), some are dry (peas and carrots, no creamed corn, plain potato mash...). Simon's mom sprinkles bacon on top of hers (YUM!!!).

For good conscience, I try to cut down on meat in mine. I do about half quinoa and half lean Angus beef. So that the 'meat' may be a bit more exciting, I let it simmer in chicken stock, it makes a flavourful sauce. I like to have chunks of corn, so I mix it in with the creamed corn -I said bid adieu to all the summer corn that I had frozen :(

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This blog started out as a diary of what we ate at home on a daily basis. I cook everything from scratch, so it was nice to have a journal, a collection of all our recipes. In November 2010 opened Edgar, our tiny café.